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the tribune stouffville ont thursday april 6 1950 woman wins annual fish derby with 16lb trout experienced fishermen took a when mrs ross welsh centre back seat at the first annual submitted her prizewinning beaverton ont fish derby 16pound lake trout helping to hold her lengthy batch are mrs william wright at the left and patricia scott ottawa letter by j e smith mp parliament adjourned wednes day for an easter recess until mon day april 17th splendid progress has been made with the sessional program but there still is a sub stantial agenda of business which likely will engage the attention of the house until midsummer there will be no ottawa letter for a couple of weeks but during the recess i look forward to visit ing throughout the riding and i hope any constituents who wish to discuss any matter with me will feel very free to get in touch with me at my office in richmond hill the budget presented by mr abbott while not sensational had proved very thoughtprovoking estimating an expenditure of twentyfour hundred million dol lars the minister held out little hope for smaller budgets and warned that any increase in social security expenditure would mean higher taxation the budget has been labelled a stand pat budget and it is just that as far as changes in our tax structure is concerned in the ab sence of striking tax most interesting parts speech dealt wih the hanges the of abbotts forecast of business and employment in can ada for 1950 he said my fore cast and fiscal program are based on the expectation of sustained high levels of production and em ployment in fact mr abbott estimated that the gross national product the best index of total national income will be about one or two per cent higher in 1950 than 1919 one of the most heartening fea tures of the budget was the finance ministers optimism for the coming year he said the concensus of informed views about the outlook for 1950 is that employment output and price levels in both canada and the united states will- show no great change from 1919 the bal ance of probabilities for canada in dicates a moderate increase in the domestic and united states de mand for our products offset in part by a reduction in overseas de mands with prices tending slightly downward and employment slight ly upward royal rug more than 1 1000 people saw queen marys carpet during the r s3nbz53sks5sn5psss55 i im your singer representative will be in your district every second day guaranteed new and used singer sewing machines nevingers 8950 and upeasy budget terms repahsrtp all makes complete line of sewing needs for prompt courteous service please write or phone singer sewing machine co 102 main st newmarket ont phone 1075 we are the only authorized singer agents in this district n 1h m it prompt returns we buy your eggs cases supplied pickup service f g baker at ratcliffs grocery stouffville ontario two and a half days it was on dis play here last week it was after wards flown to washington every stitch of the carpet was the work of queen mary and was first start ed in 1911 it took over 1000 hours of needlework by the s2yearold queen mother four stitches a min ute in all over a million stitches the finished rug has been donated by queen mary to aid britain in her dollar shortage the only stip ulation is that it must hang in some public institution of recognized re pute already a wealthy new yorker has offered 500000 for the royal rug f dead letter business the dead letter office of the canadian post office does a large business the annual report of the postmastergeneral reveals in the last year there were received at the dead letter- office 900092 ordinary letters and of these 190982 were returned to senders and 100627 were destroyed more than 3 mil lion circulars were destroyed cash found in dead letters totalled 20- 91 loo and of this 1760531 was re turned to the senders the general treasury was richer by 857023 by money found in unclaimed letters the senders of which could not be identified new department for the first time canada has a department of mines technical surveys the hon j 1 mccann is minister hi charge of the new department which will render im portant services to mining and metallurgieal industries the new department will be responsible for geological investigation and mapp ing and the collection and organ ization of geographical data on canada it also will be responsi ble for dominion observatories the mines branch is comprised of six divisions conducting a wide range of scientific and technical services for canadian industry illiiets first kgg has fastkr cross chickens often do strange things but seldom with the nice sense of timing demonstrated by a pullet owned by marcel boucher aylmer quebec boucher said the pullet laid a na tural easter egg the egg was light chocolate color and had a small but distinct white cross on the terminal end the egg was the first ever laid by the pullet the only one of a brood of 125 chickens which escap ed from a fire two months ago are school grants used for propaganda mr editor i note in a recent issue of your valuable journal a display item which in effect was a statement from the whitchurch schools that the public schools which had not entered into the school area scheme were penalized in the distribution of government grants to a very considerable extent by receiving a much less grant than those schools in the area if this article was a correct interpretation of the situation it seems to me that it is a somewhat vicious thing i say this because i am the secretarytreasurer of one of these single school sections which have not seen jit to enter the scheme as proposed by the edu cational department of ontario of grouping the schools and imposing upon them a central trustee system with paid secretaries and with one representative trustee from each section to attend to all the varied needs of the several schools what real good can come of this scheme will it make for more efficient operation of the schools will it cost the ratepayers already burdened with too many school taxes much loss outlay will it maintain the personal and intimate relation between teacher parents and ratepayers which obtains in the former setup where the local people look after the school sec tion will the pupils be better informed and more prepared to enler upon the duties of citizen ship when they graduate from these group schools than they are when they are educated in the schools which carry all the marks of home and community plan ning as has been demonstrated time and again in many of the school sections of our province will the new setup make it easier for government control from a central queens park administra tion easier to introduce fads easier to change the books required to play into the hands of companies looking for the sale of their publi cations easier for the getting of more money for these things out of the ratepayers easier to bring in new and expensive new ideas in buildings and equipment which in many cases the next decade con demn v we have noted that notices sent out to inspectors from the depart ment of education have hereto fore urged upon them to work all they can to further the idea of school areas or of township boards all this points as does the discrim ination in grants to a master central mind that wants to control and remould a la stalin from the top down and not from the bottom up many of us have worked as trus tees and as secretaries for the honor of public service asking nothing by way of financial reward that idea is assuredly passing away under a policy that deems all the old as useless i am out for real information and a missourilike showme explanation just another thing the takin away of the auditing of the school accounts from the local section to a township chartered accountant which is already putting charges for the work where formerly it was done free and as- fas as we can see just as efficiently is another improvement a pickering trustee smoked cottage rolls peameal back bacon smoked back bacon side bacon fresh hams pork sausage loin pork chop loin roast pork spare ribs rump roast brisket bone in oysters carton whitefish lb lb lb lb lb lb lb lb 63c 75c 75c 55c 45c 40c 60c 55c lb 40c lb 62c lb 29c lb 55c lb 35c oboyles meat market telephone 35 aklavik has two months each year when the average temper ature is 50 degrees above zero which means it is not cold enough to be classed as in the arctic zone dont tell an aklavikian that in january 122pound caiif born near kingston a graded holstein cow probably doesnt know it but the 122pound calf she gave birth to wednesday appears to be a recordbreaker at least for ontario the spindly legged newcomer has gained a pound so far her owner reeve w o prior of nearby howe island hasnt got around to nam ing her the animal is active and robust- unusual for overweight calves mr prior has a herd of 10 cattle most of them graded holsteins he is planning to build up a stock of purebreds meanwhile ontario agriculture dept officials thumbed through re cord books and figured that birth weights exceeding 100 pounds are rare abbott refuses frost tax dfaii finance minister abbott has told premier frost that ottawa cannot agree to becoming a collecting agency for the new proposed five per cent ontario personal income tax that if ontario wants to levy such a tax it will have to do its own collecting the matter now will probably rest until the fall federalprovin cial tax conference aurora chili gets credit saving sisters arm a 3yearold aurora child was credited with saving her baby sis ter from possible loss of an arm when the infant was caught in the ringer of a washing machine sharon foote attracted by the screams of jo anne aged 1 ran into the kitchen of their yonge st home and found the infants arm being pulled into the ringersharon pulled the plug which supplies the machine with power and called an upstairs tenant dr crawford rose said jo annes arm would have been torn off if her sister had not stopped the ma chine george hepburn unionviile loses sister 98 canada is a leading producer exporter of copper and w hy water protection raincoats windbrcakers stiowsuits have zelan water repellents applied a the mill your laundry or drycleaner uses cm water repellent v your clothes get better every day j every day in every way textiles get better and better in every yard of textiles you wear or use around the home there is an unseen agent chemistry that makes it serve you better gay colours for dresses and drapes fire resistants for curtains and hangings water repellents for outdoor garments bleaches and cleaning solvents all are typical of the vital part chemistry plays in the fabrics in your home here at canadian industries limited chemistry moves steadily forward improving the present creating for the future giving new meaning to the cil oval and its accompanying phrase serving canadians through chemistry canadian industries limited box 10 montreal que colour magic colourful dyes which never fade hring beauty to your wardrobe mrs john g r gray who died in toronto was the eldest daughter and the second eldest child of a family of six sons and four daugh ters children of the late john and jane hepburn mr and mrs gray were married 73 years ago the 1 ith of march they farmed near bol ton for a while but moved to tor onto about 05 years ago where mr gray became connected with the dominion bank head office which connection continued until his passing over 20 years ago the late mrs gray was in her 9sth year and enjoyed good health until the past two years her in terest in events and general affairs was particularly keen in spite of her advanced age and was main tained throughout her life only during the past month has she shown the effects of her weakened condition she leaves to mourn her passing two daughters mrs aw laver jean helen at home and one son james all of toronto and five grand children and two great grand children also three brothers thomas hepburn preston george hepburn unionviile and david hepburn uxbridge the funeral service was held at turner porter chapel toronto on friday march 21 interment in the family plot in mount pleasant cemetery washday white your soap- and detergent contain cleaning agent made from cil chemiral- big pricks at auction saik there was a big attendance at the sale on the lewis jewell farm and it was quite evident that there is a lot of money in the hands of the farmers and a lot of faith that tle good times are to continue ac cording the opinions of the ux bridge timesjournal a matched team of belgian horses brought s500 a threeyearold mare 2ii a yearling gelding s17 and a 1-1- yearold brood mare 125 the best cow brought s255 and the average for the whole herd was s175 a dayold calf and two others 2 weeks old brought s13750 the dayold one bringing si0 imple ments also brought a big price and we understand the entire sale amounted to well over 10000